Quick Answer: Guard pulling in no-gi requires wrist control and frame-based entries rather than lapel grips. The three most reliable entries are the 2-on-1 to butterfly guard, the arm drag to x-guard, and the Russian tie to deep half guard. Without gi fabric to hold, timing and distance management matter far more than in gi…
Quick Answer: The de la riva guard no-gi works when you replace gi grips with a heel grip on your opponent’s near leg and a deep hook behind their knee. Kill their base with constant off-balancing, then attack sweeps, the back, and leg entanglements like single-leg X and the 411. Skip the classic collar-and-sleeve control…
Quick Answer: The single leg X guard is a bottom no-gi position where you wedge one foot on your opponent’s hip, hook behind their far knee, and trap their leg between both of yours. From there you can sweep them by standing up on the trapped leg, or feed the leg into ashi garami to…
X-guard no-gi is the highest-percentage bottom sweep in grappling. Learn 7 essential entries, sweeps, and transitions to off-balance bigger opponents.
Quick Answer: Butterfly guard no-gi is a seated open guard where you sit up, get an underhook or wrist control, and slide your shins under your opponent’s thighs to create hooks that lift and off-balance them. Without lapels to grip, no-gi butterfly relies on inside position, forward pressure, and constant angle changes. The three highest-percentage…
Quick Answer: The single leg x guard (SLX) is a no-gi bottom position where you slide underneath your opponent, trap one of their legs between your thighs, and put your outside foot on their hip as a gas pedal. It gives you two of the highest-percentage tools in submission grappling at the same time —…
The K guard BJJ position is the open guard that won Lachlan Giles an ADCC absolute medal at 77kg — by heel hooking three world-class heavyweights in a row. That single tournament rewrote the no-gi guard playbook. Before 2019, K guard was a niche curiosity Lachlan kept tucked inside his own academy. After 2019, it…
The single leg x guard is the position Marcelo Garcia built a four-time ADCC career on, and twenty years later it is still the cleanest path to a no-gi back take in the sport. One leg trapped, two hooks deep, the opponent stuck in a half-stand they cannot finish — that is the entire pitch….
The leg drag pass is one of the most reliable guard passes in no-gi BJJ — and for good reason. When executed correctly, it puts the guard passer in complete hip control while giving the bottom player almost no useful guard retention options. In no-gi, where slippery limbs and absent collar grips make many passes…
Your guard just got passed. Again. The frustration is real — you set up a nice open guard, had your frames in place, and somehow your training partner sliced right through. If this scenario plays out every round, you’re not alone. Guard retention is one of the most undertrained and misunderstood aspects of no-gi jiu-jitsu,…
Your guard just got passed. Again. The frustration is real — you set up a nice open guard, had your frames in place, and somehow your training partner sliced right through. If this scenario plays out every round, you are not alone. Guard retention is one of the most undertrained and misunderstood aspects of no-gi…